General Rules of Travel Allowance - When a railway servant makes a journey by road on tour
(1) When a railway servant makes a journey by road on tour, he is entitled to the following traveling allowances:-
(a) Road mileage. --- as prescribed in sub rule (5) of Rule 1607.
(b) Daily allowance. --- as prescribed in Rule 1615.
(c) Toll tax. --- as prescribed in Rule 1640.
NOTE.--(1) When two or more railway servants travel in a conveyance belonging to one of them, the owner may draw traveling allowance as if he travelled alone and the other railway servant or servants may draw daily allowance at the appropriate rates applicable to them.
(2) Where free transport is provided, only daily allowance will be admissible as if the journey is by railway.
(3) The road mileage allowance admissible for journey performed by sharing the hire charges or by taking a single seat in a taxi, scooter etc. will be the actual share of the hire charges limited to the amount calculated at half of the rates admissible for taxi/auto rickshaw in terms of Rule 1607.
(2) When a railway servant performs a journey by road between stations connected by rail, he may be granted traveling allowance as in sub-rule (1) above, if the Head of Department in the case of gazetted railway servant and Divisional Railway Manager in the case of non-gazetted railway servant is satisfied that the journey by road was necessary in the interest of railway service, such as saving of public time or inspection of work enroute etc.
(3) Divisional Railway Managers may permit Gazetted Officers working under them to undertake journeys by road between stations connected by rail in the following types of cases-
(i) Journeys for surprise inspection of level crossing gates;
(ii) Journeys in connection with accidents and breaches;
(iii) Journeys for surprise checks at stations in the nature of raids by road against ticketless travel etc;
(iv) Surprise checks of station and staff with the safety aspect in view; and
(v) making arrangements concerning ticket checking by special squad.
(4) If the performance of journey by road is not in the interest of railway service, the railway servant concerned may be granted only such daily allowance as would have been admissible, had the journey been performed by rail.
5. When a railway servant not in receipt of a permanent or consolidated traveling allowance makes a journey on tour by an open line of a railway, he shall be entitled to
(a) a free pass under the pass rules; and
(b) a daily allowance
- (IRECE - 1629)
6. Entitlement of Toll Tax During on duty Journey - (IREC -1640) -
A railway servant who is required to proceed on duty to Nainital, Mussoorie or Almora is entitled to the Toll Tax charged by the Municipalities of those stations in addition to the traveling allowance ordinarily admissible to him under the rules subject to the condition that the State Government concerned reimburse the toll tax to its employees on tour/transfer.
